Sonntag, 25. August 2013

Waikerie

It has been a little long while since we posted our last pictures in our blog. We're sorry about that and we hope there are no hurt feelings :-) So here we go and show you what happened in the last few months

Since May we were in Waikerie South Australia, in the lovely Riverland at the Murray River. Here we've been picking fruit on different farms to fill up our wallets for further travelling.


Good morning! This was our good-morning-view for a couple of weeks when we were camping at the riverfroont. Quite often foggy, cold mornings, but during the day the sun almost always showed itself and temperature rose to about 20°C.

A cormorant stretching its wings in the morning breeze...

Our house-spider (or better van-spider) enjoying a fly...

No more animal watching and off we go to the farm to pick olives all day long, freezing in the morning, sweating in the afternoon.

After 16 days of work in a row finally a day of rest :-)

And after Jan went kayaking all by himself another day... or so he thought... we found this one sitting right next to him during his ride:
Red-Back-Spider

Besides kayaking, George's Olive-farm also had a table-tennis to offer...


After the olive season ended we found work next door at Greg's farm, where we pruned trees and picked oranges and lemons. Also we were allowed to stay on the farm almost for free, which meaned we moved from the "city"-riverside to the country-riverside.

Finally we were able to set up a living-room alltogether with a TV and a Playstation 3

What do you do if you pick oranges, and there are some of them lying on the ground you have no use for?





Mogy also enjoyed  a little servicing during our stay.


On a free weekend, we convinced our friends Siim, Kadri and Marcello to join us on a trip to Victor Harbour, around 80km south of Adelaide. It was promised to us as one of the best places to watch whales from the shore. They were absolutely right :-)

Southern Right Whales are giving birth to their calves in this area and they are staying very close to shore to protect them.